Luca Leale

Luca Leale joined F2i in 2021 and is currently Director of the Debt Investment Area. He has 25 years' experience in industry and structured finance, with a 17-year career in Project Finance. He has closed and managed approximately 30 transactions for a total value of €27 billion.

Prior to joining F2i, Luca was Head of the Italian Project Financing Portfolio at Credit Agricole CIB, dealing with all aspects of transaction management. He has followed operations and refinancing in the infrastructure, renewables and natural gas transportation and storage sectors. He worked in the Project Finance team of BNP Paribas following the origination and structuring of numerous transactions in the infrastructure and renewables sectors as well as portfolio management and restructuring.

Previously, he was part of UniCredit's project finance team, where he was responsible for numerous energy and oil & gas transactions. The first part of his working career took place in industry, where he held business development roles first in Edison Gas (also on international projects, in Egypt) and then in E.ON Italia.

He graduated in Management Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.